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Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-206) and index.

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The Current State of Catholic Higher Education The Medieval Liberal Arts and the Journey of the Mind to God Berlin: The Prototype of the Modern University Academic Freedom and Religion in America The Pursuit of Intellectual and Spiritual Wholeness, 1920-1960 The Consequence of Caesar's Gold 'The Direction Towards Which Wonder Progresses' Implications for Faculty Development and the Curriculum Endnotes Selected Bibliography.

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There are currently no books on Catholic higher education that offer a theological foundation for academic freedom. Academic freedom and its role in the mission of the Catholic university has been a contentious issue in Catholic higher education for the past forty years. Although most Catholic colleges and universities have accepted academic freedom as a core principle, Garcia argues that it is the secular version that they have adopted. He proposes a specifically theological understanding of academic freedom that does not undermine the secular version, but builds on, extends, and completes it. Such a theological understanding provides scholars the freedom to explore beyond their disciplinary domains to an ultimate horizon, or God. This understanding can be found implicitly throughout the Christian tradition, in ancient, medieval, and modern Christian writers, and Garcia seeks to recover that implicit tradition and formulate it explicitly for the modern Catholic university. (source: Nielsen Book Data)9781137031914 20160609